Founders talent accelerator creates more than 20 start-ups

Eight participating teams secure €100k in pre-seed funding

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Eight start-ups have secured €100,000 in pre-seed funding under the Founders talent acelerator.

Operated by Dogpatch Labs and funded by NDRC, the 12-week programme brings together 40 prospective entrepreneurs who are paired up to develop a start-up idea.

So far eight teams have already secured €100,000 in pre-seed funding.

Heather Morris, managing director of Founders, said: “Ireland has an abundance of tech talent, one of the best education systems in the world, and has been home to the European HQ of the tech giants for the last decade. The Founders Talent Accelerator creates a new pathway for amazingly talented, outside-the-box thinkers to unleash their entrepreneurial potential and create meaningful change globally”.

An example of one of the start-ups is GlitchAds co-founded by Aisling Browne, former global expansion and partnerships from Irish Unicorn Wayflier and Kingsley Kelly, an engineer with decade-long leadership at Google.

“I discovered my co-founder and an indispensable community of entrepreneurs who genuinely want to see us succeed,” said Browne.

Another successful entrant, Inspeq AI focuses on enhancing inspection processes for AI tools, bringing efficiency and accuracy to a new level for those building large language models.

The company was founded by AI experts Apoorva Kumar and Ramanujam Macharla Vijayakumar. 

“It’s an amazing programme for entrepreneurs,” recommending it to talented individuals with a hidden entrepreneurial spirit. Through the Founders programme, I got to turn my passion into reality, thanks to great mentors and a supportive community of entrepreneurs,” said Kumar.

The programme culminates in an investor showcase of the newly created companies in person at Dogpatch Labs in April 2024.

TechCentral Reporters

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